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A Comparative Analysis of a Detailed and Semi-Detailed Soil Mapping for Sustainable Land Management Using Conventional and Currently Applied Methodologies in Greece

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  • Orestis Kairis

    (Laboratory of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos Street, 118 55 Athens, Greece)

  • Vassiliki Dimitriou

    (Laboratory of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos Street, 118 55 Athens, Greece)

  • Chrysoula Aratzioglou

    (Laboratory of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos Street, 118 55 Athens, Greece)

  • Dionisios Gasparatos

    (Laboratory of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos Street, 118 55 Athens, Greece)

  • Nicholas Yassoglou

    (Laboratory of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos Street, 118 55 Athens, Greece)

  • Constantinos Kosmas

    (Laboratory of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos Street, 118 55 Athens, Greece)

  • Nikolaos Moustakas

    (Laboratory of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos Street, 118 55 Athens, Greece)

Abstract

Two soil mapping methodologies at different scales applied in the same area were compared in order to investigate the potential of their combined use to achieve an integrated and more accurate soil description for sustainable land use management. The two methodologies represent the main types of soil mapping systems used and still applied in soil surveys in Greece. Diomedes Botanical Garden (DBG) (Athens, Greece) was used as a study area because past cartographic data of soil survey were available. The older soil survey data were obtained via the conventional methodology extensively used over time since the beginnings of soil mapping in Greece (1977). The second mapping methodology constitutes the current soil mapping system in Greece recently used for compilation of the national soil map. The obtained cartographic and soil data resulting from the application of the two methodologies were analyzed and compared using appropriate geospatial techniques. Even though the two mapping methodologies have been performed at different mapping scales, using partially different mapping symbols and different soil classification systems, the description of the soils based on the cartographic symbols of the two methodologies presented an agreement of 63.7% while the soil classification by the two taxonomic systems namely Soil Taxonomy and World Reference Base for Soil Resources had an average coincidence of 69.5%.

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  • Orestis Kairis & Vassiliki Dimitriou & Chrysoula Aratzioglou & Dionisios Gasparatos & Nicholas Yassoglou & Constantinos Kosmas & Nikolaos Moustakas, 2020. "A Comparative Analysis of a Detailed and Semi-Detailed Soil Mapping for Sustainable Land Management Using Conventional and Currently Applied Methodologies in Greece," Land, MDPI, vol. 9(5), pages 1-42, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:9:y:2020:i:5:p:154-:d:358783
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    1. Dionisios Gasparatos & Orestis Kairis, 2022. "Detailed Soil Survey Field and Laboratory Data as a Critical Tool for Optimizing the Arable Cropping Capability Evaluation of a Representative Episaturated Soil Pedon in Greece," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-12, January.
    2. Mohamed S. Shokr & Mostafa. A. Abdellatif & Ahmed A. El Baroudy & Abdelrazek Elnashar & Esmat F. Ali & Abdelaziz A. Belal & Wael. Attia & Mukhtar Ahmed & Ali A. Aldosari & Zoltan Szantoi & Mohamed E. , 2021. "Development of a Spatial Model for Soil Quality Assessment under Arid and Semi-Arid Conditions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-15, March.
    3. Orestis Kairis & Andreas Karamanos & Dimitrios Voloudakis & John Kapsomenakis & Chrysoula Aratzioglou & Christos Zerefos & Constantinos Kosmas, 2022. "Identifying Degraded and Sensitive to Desertification Agricultural Soils in Thessaly, Greece, under Simulated Future Climate Scenarios," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-21, March.

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